It should be noted that the majority of Druze are in fact full Israeli citizens, only those in the Golan are permanent residents because historically they have refused citizenship. However increasing numbers of them are applying for citizenship since the Syrian Civil War. There are no bars to citizenship for Druze in Israel.
I sympathise with Rory,I suffered from migraines for over 30yrs,but had spells when I had none.I was on permanent medication,which controlled most of mine for around 25yrs.Mine could last 4days,my mother would say I looked grey when I had one. I found I had 2 trigger foods,the usual suspects,cheese & chocolate. Not eating chocolate wasn't an issue,but cheese was,I love strong & blue cheese. I found that if the cheese was cooked,my migraines weren't as bad. I ceased taking tablets around 10yrs ago & have been clear of them ever since. I suffered from 15yrs old to my early 60's. I'm now 71.
Migraines are completely debilitating, and aura is horrible. I get regular migraines, and serious aura around once a month, it’s very very intense and horrible. Cannabis the only thing that instantly helps my migraine symptoms other than triptans - but triptans shrink the brain & can only be used in very small doses so they cannot be used regularly. Also, getting a headache from migraine medication (Triptans, eg. Sumatriptan) is a bit counterproductive. It would be great to see/hear a much larger conversation start regarding this - this was a good start.
@@pb_pb_pb_pb I used to take Sanomigran(Pizotifen). For me they were pretty effective,but I have met others who say they're rubbish,can only say how I was on them. Was a lot better than the brutal tablets used to get rid of the pain,they made me extremely ill. Can't remember the name of the tablet,but this was getting on for 40yrs ago. I used to get tadpoles in my eyes,massive pressure just over my eyes & it felt like my brain was loose in my head.
@@docastrov9013 my late father had them for around 30yrs,then as suddenly as they started,they stopped & for the last 6 or 7yrs of his life he was free of them. There is much unknown about migraine,one day someone will crack it's code.
I’m afraid you got the Druze population of Israel all wrong… there are at least 3 such different groups, of which refugees from the Lebanese civil war in the 1970s-1980s is by far the smallest. The main group are Israeli Druze who had inhabited Palestine long before 1948, and around the establishment of Israel allied with it - they’ve been full citizens for generations, the men serve in the military (and have achieved very high ranks, Col and General, etc). The Golan Druze held on to Syrian citizenship and almost all refused Israeli citizenship (offered to them by law since the Golan’s annexation to Israel), but that has been changing since the *Syrian* civil war - over the last 10-15 years, about a third have now aligned with Israel. This was the community attacked on Saturday.
Agreed. I watch a lot of US court cases on youtube and often the reporting is wildly different from what you see in court. My reply whenever I'm aksed about sentencing of a particular case is "I wasn't in the courtroom, I didn't hear the arguments. It seems like it might be X, but I don't have enough information to be sure."
@@Mark.James. I agree, but his 'communications' leave a lot to be desired when he's so obviously dismissive and evasive. Campbell was good at the job he did but he has a lot to answer for and apologise for. He turned that stuff into an art form that benefited nobody but Blair.
Something that really put 4 years in the uk into context is finding out that a guy competing at the Olympics this year who was convicted of 3 counts of statuatory rape of like 13 yr old girl in the uk only got 4 years in prison. Thats insane
Same guy. He's Dutch, but the offence took place in the UK, where he was convicted of statutory rape. After some time, he was repatriated to his native country. In the Netherlands, there is no such thing as statutory rape. Because the other party didn't actually allege forceful rape, the offence was downgraded to sexual indecency with a minor. This carries a lower sentence, hence his release after 13 months.
The benefit helpline question -and responses: Rory... that's why you were liked and trusted as a politician, even by Labour voters. Alistair... that's why people are so disengaged with politics. Easy to laugh and joke about it, but that gets to the heart of what is wrong with politics in the UK.
What I got from that was appearing to care and pretending to do something is all that matters. We can forgot about this problem because next week it will be something else. At least you've "been heard" and "listened to" though, which should apparently feel like somethings actually been done.
I don't know exactly how much of it was in jest, but it's funny to hear Alistair's version of what Rory "should have said" on Question Time. Alistair's response is the sort of thing the British public is completely jaded to. It's obvious question dodging, people see straight through it, and it is exactly the sort of careful manoeuvring along the party line that he had just been critical of. Contrast with Rory, who gave a more direct response. Maybe I am being too nice, but I reckon it's because he had the political good sense to realise that it would be a pretty cheap issue to fix and good political value for money, so he wouldn't get in much trouble. Not to mention the fact he actually had his own moral response.
Alastair talks about why the public have no trust in politics, but his theoretical question time answer is exactly the sort of thing the public despise
The problem with Rory's answer wasn't that it was a good answer for Rory and the public, it was a great answer to the public of course, but it gets the rest of the party into trouble. The last thing they want is for a backbencher like Rory (at the time) to say "of course that's completely unacceptable" because the next morning a journalist will be sticking a microphone into the face of the Chancellor saying "senior members of your party are saying this is completely unacceptable, are you going to apologise?" - and then you can kiss goodbye to your hopes of becoming a minister any time soon.
To be fair to Alastair, he has made a career of knowing what is the right thing to say in a political sense. He was teasing Rory with the ultimate, party line, poker face answer while he himself has never been an MP and never had to deal with the public in that way.
For someone who writes books about encouraging people into politics, Alastair Campbell is the living embodiment of what turns most people off. Although I disagree with some of Rory's opinions, I genuinely feel like he was motivated into politics to make the world, as he saw it, a better place. With Alaister, it's just about power and winning and fucking over the opposition. His smarmy response to the final question, in contrast to Rory's, tells you all you need to know about the man.
Thanks guys, very good talk. Rory is spot on with his comments about hearing aids. Why haven’t they progressed more with this ailment further? My Father suffers in a similar way, he is in his nineties, but his life could be so much better for him. So pleased you raised the issue.
The UK could use the regulatory system set up here in NZ. You make an appointment with a doctor at the cannabis clinic of your choice, you can do a video consultation and you have given the doctor access to your full medical records. He will discuss in detail your medical history. The doctor decides if you are eligible under the regulations and discusses which method of consumption you are best with. He prescribes an appropriate amount for a month and gives you a three month prescription, you can only get one month at a time. You can get it filled at the clinic pharmacy or shop around with other pharmacies for a better price. It has indeed been life changing for many of us.
NZ simply copied California along with all their problems. The hybrid laws being adopted worldwide are mostly modelled off a flawed US non solution. Just look at the daft pricing issues being caused by it. Its a ridiculous waste of time if the solutions are stupid, and the American Way hasn't put a single illegal dealer out of business. In fact Californian legal growers are now illegally supplying Mexican smugglers in order to stay in business. It's very interesting just how messed up they are over all this in the USA and how lazy other legislators are by simply copying a flawed system.
That is what we already have in the UK. There are multiple companies as you say, but the laws cause stock issues and it’s all very controlled and difficult. It’s slowly getting better but it’s a long long way off where it could/should be. It seems to be working great in other counties though, as you say. Hopefully the UK will listen up and make some positive changes in the near future.
(Also I think that the prices in the UK are still higher, due to limited choice allowing companies to charge more - I could be wrong about this but I’m pretty sure I’m correct. It all is proven to work and is beneficial, but currently is all quite inaccessible currently).
@@pb_pb_pb_pb prices are high in NZ most strains in flower form are around $430 for 30g - plus dispensing fee and postage adding another $22 to the cost. It's cheaper buying it on the streets but that stuff is very hit and miss. At least we can look at the charts showing terpenes in the various strains and know the properties and strength of what we are taking. It's very controlled as to THC levels and one strain was withdrawn as it was creeping up in that dept and had to be reclassified before being back on the list of those available. The prices vary with different pharmacies so it's handy to have a website with full information on strains, terpene, thc and explanations of what effects each has, together with prices at different dispensing pharmacies. We have growers here and import from Australia and the USA.
I was stricken with migraines, on average, 22 days/months. I lost my job, and the pain was so bad, I was ready to check out. Migraine surgery in Berlin saved my life, and I now get monthly injections of a drug created for migraine only - the only migraine-specific prophylaxis in existence. I'm still unemployable, but life has a purpose now. And BTW, Alistair, THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A BIT OF A MIGRAINE. It is ignorant comments like this that maintain the general belief that migraine is a kinda bad headache, when it's a central, neurological, disorder, and listed by the WHO as in the top 20 most debilitating illnesses. Do better Alistair.
I'm not sure if this is a British thing, but I thought Rory had a strange way of pronouncing "migraine". He was saying "meegraine". For a second, it seemed like Alastair began to say migraine in the way that seems correct to me. But, then he stopped and seemed to avoid the word.
There is only one major pressing political discussion to be had in the UK at the moment. It's been a week since the countrywide civil unrest commenced. When can we expect a podcast from you guys relating to this subject ?
Netanyahu left the USA in a hurry because he didn't want to hear the message that he should bring the war crimes in Gaza to an immediate halt. The killing of a Hamas leader and a Hezbollah commander will bring to a halt any prospect of a ceasefire in Gaza which again is part of Netanyahu's objectives. Nor are he and his supporters interested in anything that might lead to a settlement with the Palestinians since this would require a two state solution.
Exactly.. same can be said for the Americans too. They’ve been doing the exact same shit that the Israelis do and want them to do, no matter if it makes Americans less safe and more hated across the Middle East
The absurdity of the technology gap is becoming more and more apparent with every smart phone and ear bud upgrade released in recent years. My point is that a wireless ear bud (for listening to music or making phone calls) contains essentially the same technology as a hearing aid, but while said hearing aid costs thousands of $ or £'s, the earbud costs hundreds, even at the top end. I predict that at some point in the near future, especially with wireless links to the compute power available in your average smart phone, (where EQ can be very finely adjusted along with noise cancellation with minimal latency etc.) earbuds will actually be more clinically and ergonomically effective as hearing aids than bespoke hearing aids. The obvious parallel is with Kodak and even digital pocket camera manufacturers becoming irrelevant to most people who have a perfectly adequate camera on their phone. Unfortunately, the vast majority of hearing aid users are elderly people who do not see the full extent to which hearing aid manufacturers will continue to behave in a predatory and despicable fashion right up to the day they go belly up.
My NHS ones are effective, pretty unobtrusive and tailored to the frequency range of hearing loss. I expect the retail pricing is an informal cartel preying on the elderly.
Hard to adequately describe how exhausting this matter is for my octogenarian parents. It is not only isolating but risky. Everything from safe mobility to interpreting complex medications gets impacted... try as they might the best offerings of NHS and private (we've attempted both) doesn't help a great deal.
Hi Rory, I am presently working on the hypothesis that a major factor in my frequent but not too severe migraines is dehydration which I was unaware of. As a result of serious attention to hydration (how you hydrate seems to be as important as by how much) my migraines have dropped off significantly. Probably only relevant for small number of sufferers but still the only causative element I have been able to identify. One spin off on the topic of mens' health is that there doesn't seem to be a warning on dehydration specifically directed at men suffering from prostrate enlargement who understandably seek to control the demands of their bladder.
My late mother suffered from migraines and I still remember the exact times and places we were when she was struck down They often happened during holidays after the stress of her very busy life had lifted a bit. Interestingly, after we were all raised and gone, she never was affected again. I think stress is a major factor and Rory you do have a very busy life.
I’ve been listening to your podcast for a few weeks now and I absolutely love your presentation and excellent content. Thank you. I am learning so much from both of you.
“It’s about authentic”. I would prefer if they were authentic, but I’m quickly coming to the realisation that this is far too much to ask for from a politician in more cases than not. These podcasts are proving to be so valuable as I learn to read between the lines.
A lot of people who think that the sentencing on the "Just Stop Oil" protesters was too harsh will continue to think so (even after reading the judgement) whenever they see that Boris Johnson is not in jail.
It very much comes across that the protesters made a complete pain of themselves in court, thereby shooting themselves in the head. Refusal to 'play the game' in court still has consequences, I'm afraid. The expression "protesting too much" comes to mind.
Point of Order: Guys, the two child benefit cap is not a thing. It’s two separate and distinct things. There is a two child limit (which applies to child tax credit and universal credit claimants) and there is a benefit cap. Somehow these two different things have become merged in the general consciousness.
@@wozzywick that’s fair enough but removing the two child limit without removing or significantly increasing the benefit cap won’t achieve the desired outcome for many. My point was you need to understand the difference and do something about both, in parallel.
Thank you, Rory, for mentioning hearing loss and hearing aids. Voice aside, what about the loss of music? Of course the priority is voice, but for those who lives have been devoted to serious music, particularly classical music, excruciating distortion is all that is available, even with the most expensive hearing aids. I have spoken to my provider about this devastating loss. Yes, sympathy is the response, but I beg for more research to help the countless thousands who are in hearing grief. A huge joy in my life has been removed. Thank you so much for such enjoyable and informative exchanges. Yes, I can hear you both.
The BBC deliberately called it occurred territory while ignoring that the twelve children that were killed were Druze who live there for hundreds of years.
Because under International Law it is Syrian territory, so defacto occupied by Israel since 1967. Most of the Golan Druze self-identify, even to this day, as Syrian.
It being occupied territory is important information because that was the reason the area was targeted, if you believe the BBC is biased AGAINST Israel then we clearly haven't been watching the same news channel
The BBC is entirely correct. Did you miss the bit where many Druze don't have Israeli citizenship, but Israel has occupied their territory? It's convenient for the Israeli government to pretend to care about them right now, but in general they have treated them poorly. Maybe you are unaware of the fact that the Druze are Arabic-speaking followers of a religion that is descended from Shia Islam?
Yeah i think this is it. Different politicians are know by different names depending on their brand (chosen or given) and i dont think it's gendered at all. off the top of my head the only 2 i can think of who are known primarily by their first name is Boris and Kamala
14:34 - That Dukakis moment is actually referenced in a fun episode of The West Wing. Toby gives Bartlett the question in debate prep, and Bartlett pranks him by deliberately fumbling it, giving an answer very similar to Dukakis' real life response.
Ive had regular migraines since I was 10 years old, usually triggered by intense exercise (often 2-3 per week when I was a teenager). The older I've got, the less I've wanted to exercise given the usual outcome, and subsequently I've started now having migraines without even exercising due to (I suspect) lower fitness and weight gain. I'm now starting regular preventative medication for the first time ever and hoping it helps so I can actually get back into a regular exercise routine. It's such a debilitating condition, and usually people assume I'm just copping out of work or exaggerating that I'm pretty much out of action for the rest of the day when one starts.
Alistair: the times you have pronounced“Kamala” incorrectly, is when you placed the emphasis on the “ma” instead of the “ka”; and/or when you pronounced the “ka” like “Camelot” instead of “car”. Rory’s doing alright so far 😉
20:53 As a scientist working in the development of new oncology and CNS (central nervous system) drugs I don’t think you understand the barriers put up by government and the public to doing clinical trials in children. The perception of using children as guinea pigs is real and the safety margins for pediatric use are rightly significantly higher. It’s not that Pharma can’t make money that drives this, it’s that the costs combined with the higher regulatory barriers makes it almost impossible to succeed. As a result Pharma gets safety data in adult indications and then tries to expand the use of these drugs to pediatrics. Tragically this extends the development timeline by years and prevents the development of some pediatric specific drugs. Also, as an aside migraine is considered a very lucrative indication within the Pharma industry and I have personally worked on several such drugs, none of which made it to commercialization. It’s a tough nut to crack as all CNS illnesses are. The underlying cause is still not well understood and thus it’s hard to design a medicine to control them.
22:08 a colleague on my team has major problem with chronic migranes and the amount of times they regularly have to start work late as a result or and use up their flexible working allowance to a point where they are now -15 hrs which they need to make up they can only make up about 30 mins a day and so are forced to do overtime on a weekend to try and make up for assume they are trained on the items that are on the overtime steer but a life were you cant function enough to keep a job reasonably (cause a lot of companies would consider them too inconsistant to keep) is still a big problem and arguably a chronic problem that takes functionality of life away IS as big a deal as i an illness that could kill you
One of the issues with childrens' medicines, this is partly because it is very difficult to get agreement to do clinical trials on children. Without trials you cannot get medicines licenced
@@TfortLo-q8m why do you waste your energy on something or someone you clearly hate so much? Would you not be better off doing something more constructive with your time? All you're achieving is boosting the podcast in the algorithm anyway.
Rory is an encyclopedia of world politics but surprisingly quiet about the long term historical polarization of wealth in the UK and the impact on those who are disadvantaged from birth. He is in a mental bubble of privilege and blindness to the issues on his own doorstep. Addressing poverty in far off places is heroic but too many of our citizens turn to food banks and debt to sustain themselves.
I suppose the way to look at it is that at least we have food banks and a relative social safety net. Don't get me wrong, no individual in Britain should be hungry or homeless, ever. It should be a complete non issue. But by comparison, even the poorest in Britain are rich in comparison to a vast swathe of the world. And his escapades abroad attempting to deal with poverty are wholly admirable. We are all world citizens. However, I can also see the side of 'lets look after our own first before we help others'. It's a balance I suppose
I have often heard Rory speak about unacceptable levels of poverty in the UK. And he is aware of his privileged background. Although people laughed at Rory Walks that seemed to me a genuine attempt to find out more about what lives are really like for people.
@@joannemoore3976 Agree, Rory is a thoroughly decent human being, he is actually getting off his backside and trying to find out what is actually going on in the world rather than preaching from his ivory tower.
Some fair criticism, yet the bubble of privilege is little unfair considering he's seen more of the world than most, and conversed with people whose problems are far more serious than the relative poverty in countries like the UK, as bad as that is.
" surprisingly quiet about the long term historical polarization of wealth in the UK and the impact on those who are disadvantaged from birth." --- What is question you want to ask?
Rory, I thank you for bringing up migraine and the fact men suffer from them, too. We can lose days of productive life because of these. My poor mother suffered badly and was even hospitalised because of migraines.
About the Durze people, Israel offered all of them citizenship. Those who were in the 1948 borders decided they wanted to accept it. Those also join the army. The Durze in the Golan heights still see themselves as Syrian citizens and so generally refused Israeli citizenship when it was offered to them
WHY would Hezbollah attack a Druze community who have kept their identity intact and separate from Jewish Israel despite more than half a century of occupation? Can we be sure the attack came from them?
They didn’t even answer the cannabis question fully… we need to legalise it and generate loads of money for the UK and create new business revenues. All the country pubs that have closed down could be turned into private member clubs and only allow people from a certain postcode to join and smoke there. A similar model is used in Spain and it works well…
Sentences for Just Stop Oil protesters are not too lenient. There are other ways they could have peacefully protested - they chose their methods deliberately to cause maximum disruption. The impact/harm caused by robbers is arguably more significant individually but need to bear in mind the thousands of victims in this instance (and the callous disregard of those same protestors to that suffering they directly caused)
Totally agree. And the one protester who showed remorse was given a suspended sentence. And disrupting commerce, emergency services, and the right of other people to freedom of movement is no joke.
Interested to know Rory and Alistairs opinion. We often hear that the UK is a world leader in xyz, or the UK needs to become a world leader in xyz. What is something the UK is actually a world leader in? Something people around the world say "if you want the best you have to go to Britain".
I suffer from terrible migraines (but I pronounce it my-grain). The best solution for me is visiting an NKT physical therapist once a year to help with cranial alignment. Went from weekly and daily pain to one or two every few months.
Small correction: I believe the record-breaking Zoom call with Vice President Harris was ~200,000 people (there are varying estimates), not 2.5 million as Rory says at 12:38
Do Rory and Alastair genuinely believe in NordVPN? It seems slightly alien to see them promoting something. I doubt either of them needs the money. What's the deal?
There is a lot of money to be made from these VPNs because they enable people to watch TV and video that are not available in their home countries. Judging by the backgrounds to the videos Alistair is not very well off.
@@jonathanmonck-mason6715 You're kidding me right? Alastair Campbell not well off? Perhaps a good reminder not to judge a person by their Zoom background...
9:54 As an American, I can report that this matters not at all, to anyone, on either side. We've slightly bigger issues at stake then comma-la vs Kamala. She's a grown-up, real politician, and this doesn't factor into her day. I urge you not to let it factor into yours.
How about you focus on the immigration politics in our own country rather than some broken place we broke and try to convince us the Israelis are even 1% in the right? Btw i am Palestinian.. but I live here in the Uk and I am a lot more worried about whats going on here than over there.
While we're talking about cannabis... psilocybin and other psychedelics really need looking at. So much promising research about their capacity for long term mental health treatment, often with a single dose, at higher rates of success than standard therapeutic and pharmaceutical interventions.
Rory, sorry to hear you suffer from migraines. This condition can be life changing. I suffered from them at puberty but didn’t know what they were. I then had a very occasional one in adult life but not frequent enough for it to be a big issue for me. As I got to my fifties I began to suffer from them more frequently and this caused me to give up my pilots licence as aura although not blinding could have caused issues when in controlled airspace or trying to land. The main trigger for mine turned out to be coffee which I had consumed large quantities of for most of my life without issue. I have tried many remedies but with little success. I am now totally caffeine free and only suffer intermittent bouts that are fairly infrequent but one mistake when I’ve ordered decaf and I’m off to kaleidoscope land. I hope you figure out what’s triggering yours.
Of all the things to save money on that is the dumbest. Encouraging people to have children is one of the best things you can do for the economy, and it's not like the UK has an issue with too many children, with births way below replacement (1.4 I believe?).
Alastair's response to the QT issue is right and Rory is wrong. Bashing a politician for being a politician is funny. Politicians try to be politically correct because of the training they've received from voters. Most voters like the bombast from elements like Farage and Trump, but want a politics run by the Rorys of the world. It is the market that determines the product- most times.
My Dad is a civil servant in the Foreign Office and he heard your comments on British embassies and how they are being sold off and couldn't agree more! Having said that, he was very sad to hear that Rory didn't mention the embassies in Tanzania or Somalia - espeically as you came out to visit and met him there Rory!
Pizotifen has really helped me with my migraines to be fair, now when I have them I can still function as the pain and visual distortions are much less 👍
If a VP takes over as President, for whatever reason, does that count as their 1st term in regards 2 term limit? If not, theoretically if a President dies early in his term, could the VP be in power for 11 years?
Hi - Just wanted to add re medical cannabis - its estimated to be about 35k patients now and there are clinical studied being done(not enough and only a small amount). Its private sector/unlicensed at the moment and patients face large costs.
people say to me Rory is a nice guy, for a Tory. I then say "what about his voting record, he voted for all the worst Tory policies?" Rory here says that people are criticizing him about his voting on opposition motions. That is not true, my criticism of him is for the laws his party wanted passed that he voted in support of
Regarding if its sexist to call Kamala Harris by her first or last name... its not. Its just about how distinct the name is. We say Starmer because it's distinct. We say Boris because its distinct while Johnson is a very common last name. Sunak same as Starmer, its a more distinct name than Rishi. Same with Biden, Joe is a very common name, Biden isnt. Same with Trump. Kamala Harris is more just an unusual case where "Harris" is a fairly common name (but not as common as Johnson), while Kamala, while distinct, does not flow too well with the English language, and is hard to pronounce right in some dialects, as covered in the video. But, saying her full name, Kamala Harris, seems to retain the flow better than just saying one or the other. I think thats more whats going on, its about linguistic flow, distinctiveness, and brand.
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It should be noted that the majority of Druze are in fact full Israeli citizens, only those in the Golan are permanent residents because historically they have refused citizenship. However increasing numbers of them are applying for citizenship since the Syrian Civil War. There are no bars to citizenship for Druze in Israel.
I sympathise with Rory,I suffered from migraines for over 30yrs,but had spells when I had none.I was on permanent medication,which controlled most of mine for around 25yrs.Mine could last 4days,my mother would say I looked grey when I had one. I found I had 2 trigger foods,the usual suspects,cheese & chocolate. Not eating chocolate wasn't an issue,but cheese was,I love strong & blue cheese. I found that if the cheese was cooked,my migraines weren't as bad. I ceased taking tablets around 10yrs ago & have been clear of them ever since. I suffered from 15yrs old to my early 60's. I'm now 71.
I wonder why they stopped? I have only had migraine auras twice - once cough medicine, once cheese. Very scary.
Migraines are completely debilitating, and aura is horrible. I get regular migraines, and serious aura around once a month, it’s very very intense and horrible.
Cannabis the only thing that instantly helps my migraine symptoms other than triptans - but triptans shrink the brain & can only be used in very small doses so they cannot be used regularly. Also, getting a headache from migraine medication (Triptans, eg. Sumatriptan) is a bit counterproductive.
It would be great to see/hear a much larger conversation start regarding this - this was a good start.
@@pb_pb_pb_pb I used to take Sanomigran(Pizotifen). For me they were pretty effective,but I have met others who say they're rubbish,can only say how I was on them. Was a lot better than the brutal tablets used to get rid of the pain,they made me extremely ill. Can't remember the name of the tablet,but this was getting on for 40yrs ago. I used to get tadpoles in my eyes,massive pressure just over my eyes & it felt like my brain was loose in my head.
@@docastrov9013 my late father had them for around 30yrs,then as suddenly as they started,they stopped & for the last 6 or 7yrs of his life he was free of them. There is much unknown about migraine,one day someone will crack it's code.
I get them from time to time, aura followed by a slight headache. Stress and coffee, which I stopped drinking, set them off. Started when I was 40
I’m afraid you got the Druze population of Israel all wrong… there are at least 3 such different groups, of which refugees from the Lebanese civil war in the 1970s-1980s is by far the smallest. The main group are Israeli Druze who had inhabited Palestine long before 1948, and around the establishment of Israel allied with it - they’ve been full citizens for generations, the men serve in the military (and have achieved very high ranks, Col and General, etc). The Golan Druze held on to Syrian citizenship and almost all refused Israeli citizenship (offered to them by law since the Golan’s annexation to Israel), but that has been changing since the *Syrian* civil war - over the last 10-15 years, about a third have now aligned with Israel. This was the community attacked on Saturday.
These podcasts are absolutely priceless. Thank you for your insights.
When it comes to court cases, it is essential to read the judgments rather than relying on often sensationalist or inaccurate news reporting
Agreed. I watch a lot of US court cases on youtube and often the reporting is wildly different from what you see in court. My reply whenever I'm aksed about sentencing of a particular case is "I wasn't in the courtroom, I didn't hear the arguments. It seems like it might be X, but I don't have enough information to be sure."
On the last point, Rory was right. Nobody wants to hear Alastair the politician any more.
more of a communications man than a policy maker
@@Mark.James. Yes. I mean Alastair's answer causes people to disengage with politics. Rory's inspires them.
@@Mark.James. I agree, but his 'communications' leave a lot to be desired when he's so obviously dismissive and evasive.
Campbell was good at the job he did but he has a lot to answer for and apologise for. He turned that stuff into an art form that benefited nobody but Blair.
Something that really put 4 years in the uk into context is finding out that a guy competing at the Olympics this year who was convicted of 3 counts of statuatory rape of like 13 yr old girl in the uk only got 4 years in prison. Thats insane
he only served 12 months btw
What the actual fuck???
There’s a Dutch athlete with a similar story. Is there really 2 sex offenders competing in the Olympic?
Same guy. He's Dutch, but the offence took place in the UK, where he was convicted of statutory rape. After some time, he was repatriated to his native country. In the Netherlands, there is no such thing as statutory rape. Because the other party didn't actually allege forceful rape, the offence was downgraded to sexual indecency with a minor. This carries a lower sentence, hence his release after 13 months.
@@ernestvanophuizen461 thank you for the reply, interesting.
On hearing aids. My dad trialed a bunch of the £5k+ ones. Best ones, £399 air pods. They can be tuned to hearing aid modes and the best he’s used
The benefit helpline question -and responses:
Rory... that's why you were liked and trusted as a politician, even by Labour voters.
Alistair... that's why people are so disengaged with politics.
Easy to laugh and joke about it, but that gets to the heart of what is wrong with politics in the UK.
What I got from that was appearing to care and pretending to do something is all that matters. We can forgot about this problem because next week it will be something else.
At least you've "been heard" and "listened to" though, which should apparently feel like somethings actually been done.
@nlewin5072 It goes to the heart of what's wrong with politics worldwide.
That's also why Rory didn't become Tory leader and PM
I don't know exactly how much of it was in jest, but it's funny to hear Alistair's version of what Rory "should have said" on Question Time. Alistair's response is the sort of thing the British public is completely jaded to. It's obvious question dodging, people see straight through it, and it is exactly the sort of careful manoeuvring along the party line that he had just been critical of.
Contrast with Rory, who gave a more direct response. Maybe I am being too nice, but I reckon it's because he had the political good sense to realise that it would be a pretty cheap issue to fix and good political value for money, so he wouldn't get in much trouble. Not to mention the fact he actually had his own moral response.
Alastair talks about why the public have no trust in politics, but his theoretical question time answer is exactly the sort of thing the public despise
The problem with Rory's answer wasn't that it was a good answer for Rory and the public, it was a great answer to the public of course, but it gets the rest of the party into trouble. The last thing they want is for a backbencher like Rory (at the time) to say "of course that's completely unacceptable" because the next morning a journalist will be sticking a microphone into the face of the Chancellor saying "senior members of your party are saying this is completely unacceptable, are you going to apologise?" - and then you can kiss goodbye to your hopes of becoming a minister any time soon.
To be fair to Alastair, he has made a career of knowing what is the right thing to say in a political sense. He was teasing Rory with the ultimate, party line, poker face answer while he himself has never been an MP and never had to deal with the public in that way.
For someone who writes books about encouraging people into politics, Alastair Campbell is the living embodiment of what turns most people off. Although I disagree with some of Rory's opinions, I genuinely feel like he was motivated into politics to make the world, as he saw it, a better place. With Alaister, it's just about power and winning and fucking over the opposition. His smarmy response to the final question, in contrast to Rory's, tells you all you need to know about the man.
literally what I just said to my partner after I finished watching this. can't agree more
Also his conflation of islamaphobia with racism shows how out of touch he is with reality.
Thanks guys, very good talk. Rory is spot on with his comments about hearing aids. Why haven’t they progressed more with this ailment further? My Father suffers in a similar way, he is in his nineties, but his life could be so much better for him. So pleased you raised the issue.
The UK could use the regulatory system set up here in NZ. You make an appointment with a doctor at the cannabis clinic of your choice, you can do a video consultation and you have given the doctor access to your full medical records. He will discuss in detail your medical history. The doctor decides if you are eligible under the regulations and discusses which method of consumption you are best with. He prescribes an appropriate amount for a month and gives you a three month prescription, you can only get one month at a time. You can get it filled at the clinic pharmacy or shop around with other pharmacies for a better price. It has indeed been life changing for many of us.
NZ simply copied California along with all their problems. The hybrid laws being adopted worldwide are mostly modelled off a flawed US non solution. Just look at the daft pricing issues being caused by it. Its a ridiculous waste of time if the solutions are stupid, and the American Way hasn't put a single illegal dealer out of business. In fact Californian legal growers are now illegally supplying Mexican smugglers in order to stay in business. It's very interesting just how messed up they are over all this in the USA and how lazy other legislators are by simply copying a flawed system.
Same here 🇦🇺
That is what we already have in the UK. There are multiple companies as you say, but the laws cause stock issues and it’s all very controlled and difficult. It’s slowly getting better but it’s a long long way off where it could/should be. It seems to be working great in other counties though, as you say. Hopefully the UK will listen up and make some positive changes in the near future.
(Also I think that the prices in the UK are still higher, due to limited choice allowing companies to charge more - I could be wrong about this but I’m pretty sure I’m correct. It all is proven to work and is beneficial, but currently is all quite inaccessible currently).
@@pb_pb_pb_pb prices are high in NZ most strains in flower form are around $430 for 30g - plus dispensing fee and postage adding another $22 to the cost. It's cheaper buying it on the streets but that stuff is very hit and miss. At least we can look at the charts showing terpenes in the various strains and know the properties and strength of what we are taking. It's very controlled as to THC levels and one strain was withdrawn as it was creeping up in that dept and had to be reclassified before being back on the list of those available. The prices vary with different pharmacies so it's handy to have a website with full information on strains, terpene, thc and explanations of what effects each has, together with prices at different dispensing pharmacies. We have growers here and import from Australia and the USA.
I was stricken with migraines, on average, 22 days/months. I lost my job, and the pain was so bad, I was ready to check out. Migraine surgery in Berlin saved my life, and I now get monthly injections of a drug created for migraine only - the only migraine-specific prophylaxis in existence. I'm still unemployable, but life has a purpose now. And BTW, Alistair, THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A BIT OF A MIGRAINE. It is ignorant comments like this that maintain the general belief that migraine is a kinda bad headache, when it's a central, neurological, disorder, and listed by the WHO as in the top 20 most debilitating illnesses. Do better Alistair.
I'm not sure if this is a British thing, but I thought Rory had a strange way of pronouncing "migraine". He was saying "meegraine". For a second, it seemed like Alastair began to say migraine in the way that seems correct to me. But, then he stopped and seemed to avoid the word.
I'm British and have always said and heard "my grain", I think Rory is unusual.
There is only one major pressing political discussion to be had in the UK at the moment.
It's been a week since the countrywide civil unrest commenced.
When can we expect a podcast from you guys relating to this subject ?
That tiny zoom in on Alastair when Rory is talking about 'Beirut' is a younger editor resisting as hard as he can getting his RUclips on. Like it.
Netanyahu left the USA in a hurry because he didn't want to hear the message that he should bring the war crimes in Gaza to an immediate halt.
The killing of a Hamas leader and a Hezbollah commander will bring to a halt any prospect of a ceasefire in Gaza which again is part of Netanyahu's objectives. Nor are he and his supporters interested in anything that might lead to a settlement with the Palestinians since this would require a two state solution.
Exactly.. same can be said for the Americans too. They’ve been doing the exact same shit that the Israelis do and want them to do, no matter if it makes Americans less safe and more hated across the Middle East
legalize and tax cannibis products and that will quickly help with the that 20 billion black hole, its a big industry in Canada
Rory's answer was way better than Alastair's sneaky political avoidant answer... Would love more politicians to say what they really believe...!
ignore Campbell. this is Rory's show.
Absolutely!
a talk on the recent uk-wide riots would be appreciated
Doctor here: hurrah for the call for cheaper and better hearing aids!
The absurdity of the technology gap is becoming more and more apparent with every smart phone and ear bud upgrade released in recent years. My point is that a wireless ear bud (for listening to music or making phone calls) contains essentially the same technology as a hearing aid, but while said hearing aid costs thousands of $ or £'s, the earbud costs hundreds, even at the top end.
I predict that at some point in the near future, especially with wireless links to the compute power available in your average smart phone, (where EQ can be very finely adjusted along with noise cancellation with minimal latency etc.) earbuds will actually be more clinically and ergonomically effective as hearing aids than bespoke hearing aids. The obvious parallel is with Kodak and even digital pocket camera manufacturers becoming irrelevant to most people who have a perfectly adequate camera on their phone.
Unfortunately, the vast majority of hearing aid users are elderly people who do not see the full extent to which hearing aid manufacturers will continue to behave in a predatory and despicable fashion right up to the day they go belly up.
My NHS ones are effective, pretty unobtrusive and tailored to the frequency range of hearing loss.
I expect the retail pricing is an informal cartel preying on the elderly.
Hard to adequately describe how exhausting this matter is for my octogenarian parents. It is not only isolating but risky. Everything from safe mobility to interpreting complex medications gets impacted... try as they might the best offerings of NHS and private (we've attempted both) doesn't help a great deal.
Ex Brit in Canada here, my hearing aids cost me about 5000GBP here, is that similar?
WHAT? Eh?
Hi Rory, I am presently working on the hypothesis that a major factor in my frequent but not too severe migraines is dehydration which I was unaware of. As a result of serious attention to hydration (how you hydrate seems to be as important as by how much) my migraines have dropped off significantly. Probably only relevant for small number of sufferers but still the only causative element I have been able to identify. One spin off on the topic of mens' health is that there doesn't seem to be a warning on dehydration specifically directed at men suffering from prostrate enlargement who understandably seek to control the demands of their bladder.
My late mother suffered from migraines and I still remember the exact times and places we were when she was struck down They often happened during holidays after the stress of her very busy life had lifted a bit. Interestingly, after we were all raised and gone, she never was affected again. I think stress is a major factor and Rory you do have a very busy life.
I’ve been listening to your podcast for a few weeks now and I absolutely love your presentation and excellent content. Thank you. I am learning so much from both of you.
“It’s about authentic”. I would prefer if they were authentic, but I’m quickly coming to the realisation that this is far too much to ask for from a politician in more cases than not. These podcasts are proving to be so valuable as I learn to read between the lines.
A lot of people who think that the sentencing on the "Just Stop Oil" protesters was too harsh will continue to think so (even after reading the judgement) whenever they see that Boris Johnson is not in jail.
It very much comes across that the protesters made a complete pain of themselves in court, thereby shooting themselves in the head. Refusal to 'play the game' in court still has consequences, I'm afraid. The expression "protesting too much" comes to mind.
@@TrevorBarre If a judge is so affected by someone not revering them that it affects their judgement this much, they are not fit to be a judge IMO.
Or Tony Blair not jailed for war in Iraq?
Point of Order: Guys, the two child benefit cap is not a thing. It’s two separate and distinct things. There is a two child limit (which applies to child tax credit and universal credit claimants) and there is a benefit cap. Somehow these two different things have become merged in the general consciousness.
Limit and cap are synonyms, I believe it’s the two child limit they are discussing
@@wozzywick that’s fair enough but removing the two child limit without removing or significantly increasing the benefit cap won’t achieve the desired outcome for many. My point was you need to understand the difference and do something about both, in parallel.
In the early 1980s, my part of Manhattan, Lower East Side, was also referred to as Beirut.
Thank you, Rory, for mentioning hearing loss and hearing aids. Voice aside, what about the loss of music? Of course the priority is voice, but for those who lives have been devoted to serious music, particularly classical music, excruciating distortion is all that is available, even with the most expensive hearing aids. I have spoken to my provider about this devastating loss. Yes, sympathy is the response, but I beg for more research to help the countless thousands who are in hearing grief. A huge joy in my life has been removed.
Thank you so much for such enjoyable and informative exchanges. Yes, I can hear you both.
The BBC deliberately called it occurred territory while ignoring that the twelve children that were killed were Druze who live there for hundreds of years.
Government illegally controlled areas then?
Because under International Law it is Syrian territory, so defacto occupied by Israel since 1967. Most of the Golan Druze self-identify, even to this day, as Syrian.
It being occupied territory is important information because that was the reason the area was targeted, if you believe the BBC is biased AGAINST Israel then we clearly haven't been watching the same news channel
Who controls that area, Susan? The Druze? Do they have a government?
The mental gymnastics to play victim...
The BBC is entirely correct. Did you miss the bit where many Druze don't have Israeli citizenship, but Israel has occupied their territory? It's convenient for the Israeli government to pretend to care about them right now, but in general they have treated them poorly. Maybe you are unaware of the fact that the Druze are Arabic-speaking followers of a religion that is descended from Shia Islam?
First time I've ever heard it called a "me"-grain and not a "my"-grain. Absolutely baffled
Haven't even watched the video yet and I know this is talking about Alistair, the man is a walking talking 🛎🔚
It's upper classhole English. Same when posh people say yar, instead of year.
He has lots of things like that. Probs “proper” English
@@TfortLo-q8mlmao it was about Rory u fanny
@@Blorp_ Haha bet he feels a bit 'stoopid' now!
I've been having migraines all 31 years of my life, and not once have I ever heard anyone say "me-graine". Is this an Eton thing? :P
no
Rory spends a lot of time in USA. It's us pronunciation.
For those complaining about the meegrain pronunciation look up the OED pron. It's a formally accepted way of saying the word.
They chant "Kamala" at her rallies, probably because it suits her personality more and has more of a ring to it.
Yeah i think this is it. Different politicians are know by different names depending on their brand (chosen or given) and i dont think it's gendered at all. off the top of my head the only 2 i can think of who are known primarily by their first name is Boris and Kamala
Anyone else here mainly for the bass intro? 😂
14:34 - That Dukakis moment is actually referenced in a fun episode of The West Wing. Toby gives Bartlett the question in debate prep, and Bartlett pranks him by deliberately fumbling it, giving an answer very similar to Dukakis' real life response.
If planning a protest and being impolite gets you 5 years, what should selling an illegal war get you?
a crappy podcast
And the ability to rehabilitate your and your centrist mates’ images.
Depends on who bought it
"planning a protest and being impolite" what a spin you're trying to put on that one
Maybe it’s listening to too much Alastair Campbell.
Ive had regular migraines since I was 10 years old, usually triggered by intense exercise (often 2-3 per week when I was a teenager). The older I've got, the less I've wanted to exercise given the usual outcome, and subsequently I've started now having migraines without even exercising due to (I suspect) lower fitness and weight gain.
I'm now starting regular preventative medication for the first time ever and hoping it helps so I can actually get back into a regular exercise routine. It's such a debilitating condition, and usually people assume I'm just copping out of work or exaggerating that I'm pretty much out of action for the rest of the day when one starts.
I believe that party politics is a failing system, it basically asserts that ‘we’re always right and you’re always wrong’
Alistair: the times you have pronounced“Kamala” incorrectly, is when you placed the emphasis on the “ma” instead of the “ka”; and/or when you pronounced the “ka” like “Camelot” instead of “car”.
Rory’s doing alright so far 😉
Same I had no idea who they were talking about for most of that section!!
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20:53 As a scientist working in the development of new oncology and CNS (central nervous system) drugs I don’t think you understand the barriers put up by government and the public to doing clinical trials in children. The perception of using children as guinea pigs is real and the safety margins for pediatric use are rightly significantly higher. It’s not that Pharma can’t make money that drives this, it’s that the costs combined with the higher regulatory barriers makes it almost impossible to succeed. As a result Pharma gets safety data in adult indications and then tries to expand the use of these drugs to pediatrics. Tragically this extends the development timeline by years and prevents the development of some pediatric specific drugs. Also, as an aside migraine is considered a very lucrative indication within the Pharma industry and I have personally worked on several such drugs, none of which made it to commercialization. It’s a tough nut to crack as all CNS illnesses are. The underlying cause is still not well understood and thus it’s hard to design a medicine to control them.
Regarding hearing aids, one of my sisters is deaf and the price of them is horrific, especially here in Australia.
Glad we have an expert in warmongering on the show!
Rory 100% behind you with regard to hearing aids. They cost thousands and don’t work!
22:08 a colleague on my team has major problem with chronic migranes and the amount of times they regularly have to start work late as a result or and use up their flexible working allowance to a point where they are now -15 hrs which they need to make up they can only make up about 30 mins a day and so are forced to do overtime on a weekend to try and make up for assume they are trained on the items that are on the overtime steer but a life were you cant function enough to keep a job reasonably (cause a lot of companies would consider them too inconsistant to keep) is still a big problem and arguably a chronic problem that takes functionality of life away IS as big a deal as i an illness that could kill you
Alistair's absolute contempt for the sponsor while Rory spitefully delivers the obligated soundbites is quite delicious :)
Alistair’s never met a pound note he didn’t like
One of the issues with childrens' medicines, this is partly because it is very difficult to get agreement to do clinical trials on children. Without trials you cannot get medicines licenced
Alistair looks sharp in that suit, thank you for another great episode.
He looks like a school boy
@@TfortLo-q8m why do you waste your energy on something or someone you clearly hate so much? Would you not be better off doing something more constructive with your time?
All you're achieving is boosting the podcast in the algorithm anyway.
Good to see Campbell doing his bit for capitalism right at the start
Rory is an encyclopedia of world politics but surprisingly quiet about the long term historical polarization of wealth in the UK and the impact on those who are disadvantaged from birth. He is in a mental bubble of privilege and blindness to the issues on his own doorstep. Addressing poverty in far off places is heroic but too many of our citizens turn to food banks and debt to sustain themselves.
I suppose the way to look at it is that at least we have food banks and a relative social safety net. Don't get me wrong, no individual in Britain should be hungry or homeless, ever. It should be a complete non issue. But by comparison, even the poorest in Britain are rich in comparison to a vast swathe of the world. And his escapades abroad attempting to deal with poverty are wholly admirable. We are all world citizens. However, I can also see the side of 'lets look after our own first before we help others'. It's a balance I suppose
I have often heard Rory speak about unacceptable levels of poverty in the UK. And he is aware of his privileged background. Although people laughed at Rory Walks that seemed to me a genuine attempt to find out more about what lives are really like for people.
@@joannemoore3976 Agree, Rory is a thoroughly decent human being, he is actually getting off his backside and trying to find out what is actually going on in the world rather than preaching from his ivory tower.
Some fair criticism, yet the bubble of privilege is little unfair considering he's seen more of the world than most, and conversed with people whose problems are far more serious than the relative poverty in countries like the UK, as bad as that is.
" surprisingly quiet about the long term historical polarization of wealth in the UK and the impact on those who are disadvantaged from birth." --- What is question you want to ask?
I would be really interested to hear the views on the riots, social media and the wider issues with defending liberal democracy.
Rory, I thank you for bringing up migraine and the fact men suffer from them, too. We can lose days of productive life because of these. My poor mother suffered badly and was even hospitalised because of migraines.
About the Durze people, Israel offered all of them citizenship. Those who were in the 1948 borders decided they wanted to accept it. Those also join the army. The Durze in the Golan heights still see themselves as Syrian citizens and so generally refused Israeli citizenship when it was offered to them
@21:10 Rory misses the economics completely...supply and demand...children simply do not get seriously unwell compared to older people
Alistair demonstrating so well why politicians are hated. It’s the same energy as a used car salesman.
WHY would Hezbollah attack a Druze community who have kept their identity intact and separate from Jewish Israel despite more than half a century of occupation? Can we be sure the attack came from them?
They didn’t even answer the cannabis question fully… we need to legalise it and generate loads of money for the UK and create new business revenues. All the country pubs that have closed down could be turned into private member clubs and only allow people from a certain postcode to join and smoke there. A similar model is used in Spain and it works well…
Sentences for Just Stop Oil protesters are not too lenient. There are other ways they could have peacefully protested - they chose their methods deliberately to cause maximum disruption.
The impact/harm caused by robbers is arguably more significant individually but need to bear in mind the thousands of victims in this instance (and the callous disregard of those same protestors to that suffering they directly caused)
Totally agree. And the one protester who showed remorse was given a suspended sentence. And disrupting commerce, emergency services, and the right of other people to freedom of movement is no joke.
FYI the Drewz have been a peaceful influence in Lebanon for many years. Walid Jumblatt was a moderating influence.
Interested to know Rory and Alistairs opinion.
We often hear that the UK is a world leader in xyz, or the UK needs to become a world leader in xyz.
What is something the UK is actually a world leader in? Something people around the world say "if you want the best you have to go to Britain".
Let's not talk about the state of the U.K. The big story is what's going on abroad.
Lovely Rory’s enthusiasm for Nord VPN
Is Alastair on ecstasy? He's been sweating like a beast and chugging water for the last two episodes. If so.... props.
Start 'worrying' when he starts dancing...
@19:20 medical cannabis isnt recreational cannabis
I suffer from terrible migraines (but I pronounce it my-grain). The best solution for me is visiting an NKT physical therapist once a year to help with cranial alignment. Went from weekly and daily pain to one or two every few months.
It’s not that the sentences were too harsh, it’s that the sentences for other crimes are too weak!!!
Small correction: I believe the record-breaking Zoom call with Vice President Harris was ~200,000 people (there are varying estimates), not 2.5 million as Rory says at 12:38
Do Rory and Alastair genuinely believe in NordVPN? It seems slightly alien to see them promoting something. I doubt either of them needs the money. What's the deal?
There is a lot of money to be made from these VPNs because they enable people to watch TV and video that are not available in their home countries. Judging by the backgrounds to the videos Alistair is not very well off.
@@jonathanmonck-mason6715 You're kidding me right? Alastair Campbell not well off? Perhaps a good reminder not to judge a person by their Zoom background...
Weird they have not made a video about the riots. Very strange. Any other time there would be an 'emergency video'.
9:54 As an American, I can report that this matters not at all, to anyone, on either side. We've slightly bigger issues at stake then comma-la vs Kamala. She's a grown-up, real politician, and this doesn't factor into her day. I urge you not to let it factor into yours.
Other topics were discussed and surely it’s polite to get someone’s name correct ?
When it comes to Cannabis, you can literally grow your own plants
"Blue glasses" for computer and phone screen fixed my migraines fyi
How about you focus on the immigration politics in our own country rather than some broken place we broke and try to convince us the Israelis are even 1% in the right?
Btw i am Palestinian.. but I live here in the Uk and I am a lot more worried about whats going on here than over there.
hearing my-grain pronounced me-grain gave me a headache.
While we're talking about cannabis... psilocybin and other psychedelics really need looking at. So much promising research about their capacity for long term mental health treatment, often with a single dose, at higher rates of success than standard therapeutic and pharmaceutical interventions.
Rory your so bloody right about hearing aids👍
Rory, sorry to hear you suffer from migraines. This condition can be life changing. I suffered from them at puberty but didn’t know what they were. I then had a very occasional one in adult life but not frequent enough for it to be a big issue for me. As I got to my fifties I began to suffer from them more frequently and this caused me to give up my pilots licence as aura although not blinding could have caused issues when in controlled airspace or trying to land. The main trigger for mine turned out to be coffee which I had consumed large quantities of for most of my life without issue. I have tried many remedies but with little success. I am now totally caffeine free and only suffer intermittent bouts that are fairly infrequent but one mistake when I’ve ordered decaf and I’m off to kaleidoscope land. I hope you figure out what’s triggering yours.
Has anybody seen figures on how much it would cost to remove the 2 child benefit cap? Certainly most families we know have only one or two children.
The IFS have it at £3.4 Billion per year...
Of all the things to save money on that is the dumbest. Encouraging people to have children is one of the best things you can do for the economy, and it's not like the UK has an issue with too many children, with births way below replacement (1.4 I believe?).
@@imflikytits not necessarily a financial thing though; the vast majority of people could afford to have more children but they CHOOSE not to do so.
Alastair's response to the QT issue is right and Rory is wrong.
Bashing a politician for being a politician is funny. Politicians try to be politically correct because of the training they've received from voters.
Most voters like the bombast from elements like Farage and Trump, but want a politics run by the Rorys of the world.
It is the market that determines the product- most times.
Love you two and I learn so much watching you.
My Dad is a civil servant in the Foreign Office and he heard your comments on British embassies and how they are being sold off and couldn't agree more!
Having said that, he was very sad to hear that Rory didn't mention the embassies in Tanzania or Somalia - espeically as you came out to visit and met him there Rory!
Pizotifen has really helped me with my migraines to be fair, now when I have them I can still function as the pain and visual distortions are much less 👍
I really like watching Rory's face when he's talking about NordVPN
The Druse leader, Walid Jumblatt, blamed the Israelis.
That little ingenious question time turn around idea- absolutely brilliant😂😂
Oh dear, you've been swindled.
on hearing - but also educating wider population on how to support etc etc?
Good to see Alaistair smartly dressed!
If a VP takes over as President, for whatever reason, does that count as their 1st term in regards 2 term limit? If not, theoretically if a President dies early in his term, could the VP be in power for 11 years?
Ngl my mum was kept on the line for 2 hours
Two intelligent people. Billionaires are driven, but maybe not so thoughtful .
Another excellent broadcast . 👍
Love the rest is politics.
Hi - Just wanted to add re medical cannabis - its estimated to be about 35k patients now and there are clinical studied being done(not enough and only a small amount). Its private sector/unlicensed at the moment and patients face large costs.
18:33 it was not closing down j25 for 30mims. They planned to coordinate the entire closing down of the orbital ring road
Migraleve is incredibly effective in my experience
people say to me Rory is a nice guy, for a Tory. I then say "what about his voting record, he voted for all the worst Tory policies?"
Rory here says that people are criticizing him about his voting on opposition motions. That is not true, my criticism of him is for the laws his party wanted passed that he voted in support of
Migraine also markedly increases your risk of ischaemic heart disease and stoke
Regarding if its sexist to call Kamala Harris by her first or last name... its not. Its just about how distinct the name is.
We say Starmer because it's distinct.
We say Boris because its distinct while Johnson is a very common last name.
Sunak same as Starmer, its a more distinct name than Rishi.
Same with Biden, Joe is a very common name, Biden isnt. Same with Trump.
Kamala Harris is more just an unusual case where "Harris" is a fairly common name (but not as common as Johnson), while Kamala, while distinct, does not flow too well with the English language, and is hard to pronounce right in some dialects, as covered in the video. But, saying her full name, Kamala Harris, seems to retain the flow better than just saying one or the other.
I think thats more whats going on, its about linguistic flow, distinctiveness, and brand.